Painkiller bridge in the neck???

[jorgercrosa]

Well, it all started when I was about to make a trade with our fellow forum member, With Full Distortion. I wanted his Emerald neck and offered a Cold Sweat neck I've gotten in a trade a couple of years ago.

My pickup was paired with a Painkiller on a custom tele (thick mahogany body, maple/rosewood neck). JP was asking a few questions and I mentioned I really liked the CS neck for its really powerful single notes. I am no shredder, and most of my guitars have separate volume knobs for each pickup, no switches and no tones, so I usually add some volume on the neck to blend it with the bridge, and occasionaly I use the neck by itself.

Well, JP asked me to check the resistence on the CS neck, just to make sure. It should read something like 8.x, so imagine my surprise when it read 15.6k!! I immediately checked all other pickups and everything was fine. Except that I have been pairing my Painkiller with a bridge pickup in the neck position for a while, and I was enjoying it!

I took the pickup out and it had a black magnet underneath, so this is the first time I noticed I had been using a ceramic pickup on the neck. So we narrowed it down to either a C-bomb or another Painkiller.

Fortunately I had both at hand, so I compared the 3 pickups in the same guitar (the custom tele). So that was the veredict: I have been using a bridge Painkiller in the neck position!

I remember that Tim once told me that the guitarrist from Stryper uses a Painkiller bridge in the neck and really likes it for solos. Well, if I don't get a neck pickup for this guitar, I am about to put this baby right back and willingly have a full on Painkiller guitar, with both bridge pickups on it!

And that is my review, I guess.

TL;DR: I accidentally had been using a PK bridge in the neck position, and have enjoyed it very much.

[jorgercrosa]

What's up, 44 viewers that are too shy to coment on this thread! :-D

Though I should share this with ya: I sent some pictures to Tim and he said the magnet looked like alnico V instead of ceramic. He said it is definitely not a Painkiller, and judging by the not so good quality of my pics, it looks like a Holydiver bridge!

My head just went blue screen. I must reboot and I will be right back.

[Kiichi]

Yeah, sorry, but you are asking some specific stuff here. There are some forum member who had he painkiller (I am not one of them), but to find one with the neck experience withing those...that is quite a tall order. So if no one replies it is likely not out of lack of interest or anything, just not knowing anything about this really.

[jorgercrosa]

Hi Kiichi,

Actually I wasn't asking, just talking about my experiences with a bridge pickup in the neck spot, whitout knowing it.

What I thought was a Cold Sweat neck is actually a Holy Diver bridge, according to Tim. It did sounded like the Painkiller in the bridge position of one of my guitars that had a Painkiller before.

Well, that's it. Share your experiments, people!

[Kiichi]

Hi Kiichi,

Actually I wasn't asking, just talking about my experiences with a bridge pickup in the neck spot, whitout knowing it.

What I thought was a Cold Sweat neck is actually a Holy Diver bridge, according to Tim. It did sounded like the Painkiller in the bridge position of one of my guitars that had a Painkiller before.

Well, that's it. Share your experiments, people!

My bad, misread that then, sorry. Long day. =)

Still, I think most people who viewed this though that they knew nothing about his, cause it is unusual.

[jorgercrosa]

My bad, misread that then, sorry. Long day. =)

Still, I think most people who viewed this though that they knew nothing about his, cause it is unusual.

No problem, hehehe

Well, it sure is unusual! The funny thing is, being the hopeless GAS case that I am, I tend to pile up BKPs before my guitar projects even exist. There was a time when I had more bridge Pickups than neck pickups, so I asked Tim how a Cold Sweat bridge would work on the neck. He said it would be VERY bright, but since it was meant for a baritone mahogany neck through, I thought I could give it a shot. I am glad I didn't, because the Cold Sweat is wonderful on the bridge!

I was a bit surprised when I found out about the DC on what I thought was a neck pickup. Which just shows that with the right height adjustments we can totally balance a neck pickup with bigger DCs than bridges... Well probably not all of them, but at least the ones that make some sense.

In this case, it was the Holydiver (and not the Painkiller) bridge in the neck. And it was fine for riffing in the middle position and for some soloing on the neck only.